Here comes the rain...

Welcome FALL...and the RAIN!

Not that I'm TOO bummed because one of my favorite things is to do is run in the rain!!! =D

We live in Washington...you should feel lucky its been so nice~

Bree and J

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Blogger Fall Feature: Week 3 {Delicious Recipes with Pumpkin}

 {Delicious Recipes with Pumpkin}

Pumpkin Spice Rice Crispie Treats

 Pumpkin Frozen Yogurt

 Pumpkin and Cheese Spice Bread

 Pumpkin Latte

 Pumpkin Chili

I normally like to go to the source for any blog sharing ideas but this is a simple and well done post by "Dream Book Design" on 

"10 Pumpkin Recipes For The Fall"

Enjoy!!! AND if you create any of these delicious ideas

 please make sure to SHARE! ;) 

Yes, of coarse I'm meaning ME but share with a neighbor, family or friend! 

Happy Fall~

Bree and J

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"KEY" Problem

Bree's Work Area...well the computer work area...;)

To the far left is of coarse my coffee...you won't find me without coffee!!! Then is my older but new to me computer that has editing software and the burning capabilities for my photography. This computer though has a security/internet connection pronblem that I need to have my "sister wife's" husband fix ;) And all the way to the  right is my trusty old side kick. With the editing software I'm comfortable with and my internet connection.

As you can see my keyboard is missing a few "key" components. LOL. Thanks to my beautiful children!

The one main problem I was having, was my fingers were starting to get raw from hitting the nonexistent "I" and "O"....do you know how many times when typing you need to type those letters!?!?!  

So I followed the advice of a friend of mine and took some not so common letters and replaced the "I" and "O" with them! 

GENIUS!

 Removed my "V"

I also had to take off the little rubber stopper off from where "V" was and place it in the new "I" letter spot. This rubber stopper pushes the key back up after typing on it.

Push the letter down, somewhat hard.

AND whalla! 

I now have and "I" and "O" key! Replaced with a "Z" and "V".

Ya,I know my simple "key" problem post is dumb but I was uninspired and exhausted, lol~

Bree and J

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Spooky Spiders

The kids and I did a little Halloween decorating.  I was inspired by Pinterest of course! It was pinned from Ms. Stewart and the tutorial is here.

Martha Stewart's Spider Nests

Instead of styrofoam eggs (who can find those easy this time of year?!), I used 3 bunched-up plastic grocery bags into one grocery bag to make a ball.  I also just hole punched a bunch of dots and irregular shapes out of black construction paper and tucked them down inside of the stocking with the stuffing for the inside spiders.

 

Our Spider Nests

I bought knee-high stockings from Walgreens.  They are the kind in the little plastic containers like the ones you get from the candy machines, and were only 50 cents a pair.  For $2.00 we have 8 stockings.  The spiders were also from Walgreens and I bought 2 packs for $1.99 each.  They were orange and  black spider rings with the ring part cut off.  I only used the black spiders and there are 7 spiders per nest, 3 on the inside and 4 on the outside.  The spider webbing is $3.99 at Walgreens and I bought one package and the leaves are from nature :).  That's how for less than $10, you can have some spooky spiders!

 

Plastic bag ball tutorial

 

Get four bags together.

 

Bunch them up together,

 

 

into one bunch.

 

 Put your one bunch into the remaining bag.

 



Make a ball shape and twist the bag under the ball shape.

 

 

I generally do one twist.

 

 

Then open the bag below the twist and wrap it around the ball shape.

 

 

Twist one more time below the ball shape. By now you should only have the handles left with maybe a little bit of bag.

 

 

Wrap those handles around and tie in a double knot on the other side of the ball shape.

 

 

The finished shape is a little larger than a baseball but smaller than a softball.  I'm sure you could experiment with more or less bags for a more compact or larger/smaller ball.

 

I hope that helps!  Link up your own spooky spiders on our Facebook page!

 

Spider webs in your face,

 

Jessi and B



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